Still up in the North East today, which was good as this allowed us to watch the Great North Run in South Shields. We managed to get a perfect place at the bottom of the Marsden Bank. Traffic was interesting getting there but we parked at the National Trust's Souter Lighthouse and walked the mile or so to this spot. Just in time as around 10 minutes after getting here the first of the ladies came through (wheelchairs had already started coming through). Julie had never seen the event before but it really is a spectacle worth seeing. After watching the women elite athletes, the men's elite athletes (including Mo Farra) we watched the main body of runners come through for about half an hour. Somewhere in this never ending stream of people would be Tracey Cramond who became the 1 millionth finisher of the Great North Run, a number no other half marathon has achieved to date. The runners watched, we walked back to Souter for a refreshing cup of tea,
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